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Even If We Break by Marieke Nijkamp

11 reviews

bradley's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Child death, Mental illness, Car accident, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Hate crime, Ableism, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Toxic friendship

mxajlikesbooks's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Plot seemed messy and all over the place, too much going on at once with various character's personal circumstances. Book needed to be longer and go into much more depth about various things to get the feel I think it was going for. Felt like I didn't have time to properly absorb or care about character details. Some of the dialogue and text was too on the nose. I love a good found family, creating your own meaning from life and facing it together sorry, but I didn't need to be beaten over the head with that being one of the main themes. I really wanted to like this book and finished it out of curiosity to see how it ended but I couldn't get into it and just didn't care like it wanted me to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Car accident, Addiction, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, and Panic attacks/disorders

g0ryg0bl1n's review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

the main antagonist was a little predictable. the cast was diverse in the sense of sexuality, gender, and ‘health’. i am pretty sure the group was made up of mostly white people. they address that in the book though. the characters were relatable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Bullying, Murder, Ableism, Chronic illness, and Death

theoceanrose's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, and Transphobia

puttingwingsonwords's review

dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Murder, Violence, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying, Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty

mydearwatsonbooks's review

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Toxic friendship, Panic attacks/disorders, and Addiction

Minor: Bullying, Transphobia, Suicide, Grief, and Car accident

nyoom's review

dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Transphobia, and Violence

Moderate: Medical trauma and Toxic relationship

Minor: Colonisation

drp_moonlight's review

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I can't begin to say how underwhelming it was. The book markets itself as a thriller but the actual action is far too often put aside for teen drama and angst that tried to pass as character development but only served to drag the story to a complete halt. The villain was incredibly predictable and not even interesting at that. Still rated 3 stars because it was a quick read and entertaining enough. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Ableism, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Death, Drug abuse, Hate crime, Murder, Transphobia, and Chronic illness

Minor: Animal death and Suicidal thoughts

halfwaytoaugust's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Transphobia, Blood, Body horror, Addiction, and Violence

Minor: Physical abuse

nobirdtennis's review

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

things i loved: diversity of the characters in gender, sexuality, class, and ability. there were two trans characters, one of whom was nonbinary. one character was autistic, and another had a physical disability. class divisions were a prominent part of both the plot and character dynamics. i found the characters interesting and relatable (except for liva). i definitely felt connected with characters who i had shared identities with. queer, trans, and disabled characters were allowed to have their identities not be sidelined while not being the biggest plot focus.

just okay: the writing wasn’t anything remarkable, but it didn’t take away from the book much either. i would’ve liked to learn more about zac.

things i didn’t like: i would’ve liked to see a less white cast. i wasn’t super into the final reveal. it wasn’t super predictable, but not very surprising either.

Spoiler

i did at least like that the villain was bigger than liva. it was really capitalism and the ruling class as a whole.

overall: i liked this book a lot! i haven’t read a horror or thriller book in quite a few years, and this was a nice taste of that. it wasn’t the best thing ever, but queer and disabled people deserve thriller books that aren’t masterpieces!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Bullying, Transphobia, Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, and Chronic illness